The 2018 Victorian Community History Awards were announced at the Arts Centre as part of History Week October 2018. See below for a full list of winners and commendations:
Victorian Premier’s History Award
- WINNER The Maddest Place on Earth by Jill Giese, published by Australian Scholarly
Judges’ Special Prize
- WINNER Barro-abil Our Beautiful Barrabool Stone: History and Use of Barrabool Sandstone by Jennifer Bantow and Ros Lewis
History Article (Peer Reviewed) Award
- WINNER ‘The Happiest Time of My Life’: Emotive Visitor Books and Early Mission Tourism to Victoria’s Aboriginal Reserves by Nikita Vanderbyl, published in Aboriginal History
Collaborative Community Award winner and commendations
- WINNER ‘A Secondary Education for All?’ A History of State Secondary Schooling in Victoria by John Andrews and Deborah Towns, published by Australian Scholarly
- Urban Choreography. Central Melbourne 1985- by Kim Dovey, Rob Adams and Ronald Jones
- Heathmont Sketchbook by Heathmont History Group
- Pentridge. Voices from the Other Side by Rupert Mann
- Navigating 45 Years. A History of the Yarra Valley Orienteering Club 1972-2017 by Peter Black
Local History Project Award winner and commendations
- WINNER Silent Lives: Women of Warrnambool and District 1840-1910 by Elizabeth O’Callaghan, published by Warrnambool and District Historical Society
- The Welsh on Victoria's Central Goldfields. A Dictionary of Biography by Peter Griffiths
- High Country History Hub by Mansfield Historical Society
- Top Dog of the West. A Study of the Belfast and Western Civil Service 1841-1885 by Pamela M. Marriott
- Vagrants and Murderesses by Amber Evangelista
History Publication Award winner and commendations
- WINNER Granville Stapylton: Australia Felix 1836, Second in Command to Major Mitchell by Gregory C. Eccleston, published by Evandale Publishing
- The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett
- Hanging Rock - A History by Chris McConville
- The Buxtons. 150 Years of Developing Melbourne by Peter Yule
- Made to Order. George Thwaites and Sons, Colonial Cabinet Makers by robert La Nauze
- The Good Country. The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood
Local History – Small Publication Award winner and commendations
- WINNER Art Captured: Hans-Wolter von Gruenewaldt, Prisoner of War Camp 13 Murchison: His Story and His Art by Hans-Wolter von Gruenewaldt and Kay Ball, published by the Murchison and District Historical Society
- And the Women Came Too. The Families of the Founders of the Melbourne Mechanics' Institution by Anne Marsden
- Linton. A Photographic History by Jill Wheeler and Del Atkinson
- A Pictorial Guide to the Long Lost Lancefield and Kilmore Railway by Kylie McKay and Bob Tomkins
- Ballarat's Blooming Begonias by Friends of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens
Cultural Diversity Award winner and commendations
- WINNER Migrant Stories by Stella Dimadis, Medea Films
- The Melbourne Welsh Church. In the Beginning 1852-1914 by Bill Jones
- Grandmothers MMV Group Project by Multicultural Museums Victoria
- Passages by Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society
Multimedia Award winner and commendations
- WINNER Secrets from the Mallacoota Bunker by the Mallacoota and District Historical Society
- Demonwiki. The History of the Melbourne Football Club by Adam Woolcock and Travis Warren
- ReCollection by Memento Media and Moreland City Council
- Miss Showgirl by the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria Heritage
Historical Interpretation Award winner and commendations
- WINNER Wangaratta Stories, a collaborative exhibition by the Wangaratta Historical Society, Wangaratta Art Gallery and Museums Australia (Victoria) Roving Curator Program
- Castlemaine Cemetery. A Walk with Glimpses of the Past by Ian Hockley
- Stanley Women of the 19th Century. Hearts of Gold - Minds of Mettle by the Friends of Stanley Athenaeum
- Torquay History App by Cheryl Baulch and Chris Barr, Torquay Museum Without Walls
- Walks in Port Phillip by Meyer Eidelson and others
Centenary of World War One Award winner and commendations
- WINNER Lest We Forget: Southern Mitchell Shire Volunteers Who Served in World War One by Grahame Thom and the Kilmore Historical Society
- Chinese ANZACs of the Loddon-Mallee Region by Golden Dragon Museum
- The Bendigo Roll of Honour by Murray Poustie
- Victorian War Heritage. The Rich War History of Springvale War Cemetery and Springvale Botanical Cemetery by Celestina Sagazio
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View photos of the ceremony below:
